A History of Australia, Volume 4This fourth volume continues the story [of the history of Australia] from the discovery of gold in February 1851 to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia on January 26 1888. Its vital theme concerns the debate in Australian about the life of man without God; and the impending breakdown of bourgeois society, succeeded by an age of ruins. |
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... drunken revellers ransacked the ashes in search of bottles of rum and other ardent spirits , while Westerby lay on his back in drunken oblivion . The great roar of the mob rolled over to the camp as a herald of a future day of reckoning ...
... drunken revellers ransacked the ashes in search of bottles of rum and other ardent spirits , while Westerby lay on his back in drunken oblivion . The great roar of the mob rolled over to the camp as a herald of a future day of reckoning ...
Page 220
... drunken blaspheming diggers , rushing from tap - house to tap- house , were flinging money around like dust , and running riot in the streets , sometimes accompanied by bedizened Jezebels who fleeced them of their money and anything ...
... drunken blaspheming diggers , rushing from tap - house to tap- house , were flinging money around like dust , and running riot in the streets , sometimes accompanied by bedizened Jezebels who fleeced them of their money and anything ...
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... Drunken sailors staggered down the street . A preacher harangued a small crowd , while little boys picked the pockets of those who were hearing of God's plan for the salvation of mankind . Late at night vaudeville shows vomited forth a ...
... Drunken sailors staggered down the street . A preacher harangued a small crowd , while little boys picked the pockets of those who were hearing of God's plan for the salvation of mankind . Late at night vaudeville shows vomited forth a ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
Copyright | |
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